Dashavatara (Sanskrit: , davatra) refers to the ten avatars of Vishnu, the Hindu god of preservation. Children's Corner - Stories - Ten Avatars of Vishnu - DashaavataraDashavatara of Lord Vishnu. A demon Hiranyaksha, had prayed for Lord Brahma and got awarded a boon that no beast.Vamana (short man): Homo Erectus, Upright, yet. In VARAHA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a boar in this world. Among the long list of 24 avatars, ten avatars have captured our imagination for centuries togethermatsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha. Did you know that each avatar of Vishnu arrived with a specific purpose Time and again, Vishnu has manifested in different forms to fulfil his role as a ‘protector’ of the world.
The actor mentioned that all these characters were close to his heart. Mohanlal’s Dasavatharam 40 years and 10 Characters. In the Bhagavad Gita there is a verse. These Avatars play a major role in shaping human evolution through centuries.
Homo Sapiens (350,000-100,000 years ago)In MATSYA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a fish in this world. Each avatar of Lord Vishnu shall be presented below with appropriate details of the situation under which the lord was compelled to appear on the earth.While many explanations are given for the 10 avatars of Vishnu, one can see striking similarity of these stories with the theory of evolution of life.Life starts in water (600 million-400 million years ago)The first amphibians emerge (100 million years ago)The first mammals evolve (60 million years ago)Half man-half animal appear (30 million years ago)Homo Erectus, Upright, yet short and weaponlessParashurama (parashu=axe, Rama=name of God)Bronze age the coming of Ramapithecus development of first weapons such as axe. These incarnations are termed as the 'avatars' of Lord Vishnu. There are ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu, has incarnated in various life forms through different yugas (ages or eons) in situations where Dharma was in danger, because of certain evil elements in the world. "Whenever Dharma, or the situation of law and order, is endangered on this world, I shall incarnate onto this world to re-establish Dharma, law and order, and to protect the good people and to destroy the evil elements of the society."Vishnu is the name given to the protector and sustainer of the universe.
True to his word, after seven days the Lord appeared and the king tied the boat to the fish by using the royal serpent Vasuki and the fish took all of them to Mt Himavan and kept them there till the flood was over and in the new era, the king started procreation for the new era.In KURMA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a turtle. It predicted that the world would come to an end by a huge flood in seven days and requested the king to build a huge boat and take the seven sages(hermits), seeds of all plants, one animal of each type and told him that he would appear as a fish to propel the boat to Mt Himavan for surviving the flood to the next yuga(eon). The king realized that it was Lord Vishnu himself and then the lord made an appearance and made a special request to the king. Then the king threw it into the river, but it soon it outgrew the river and the king then threw it into Ganges and then into the ocean. Heeding its request, the king put the fish into a jar of water but the fish started growing and the jar was not big enough for it. One day as he was performing ablutions with river water, a small fish came into his hands and just as he was about to throw the fish back into the river, the fish requested the king to save its life.
Mt Mandara could be used a the churning stick he said. Vishnu then asked them to churn the ocean of milk after adding medicines into the ocean. The sage had once presented a garland of flowers to Indra, king of gods, who carelessly gave it away to his elephant which trampled it.The Devtas approached Vishnu for help. In the ongoing saga of battle between the gods and asuras, on one occasion the gods suddenly lost all their strength due to a curse by the short-tempered sage Durvasa.
This proved to be his lacunae. But somehow from the list of beasts the name of boar was missing. A demon Hiranyaksha, had prayed for Lord Brahma and got awarded a boon that no beast nor man nor god could kill him. As soon as the devatas were served the maiden disappeared thus totally deceiving the asuras and making them totally weak.In VARAHA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a boar in this world. Then Lord Vishnu took the form of an apsara, a beautiful maiden, and seduced the asuras into letting her distribute the nectar and also to abide by her order of distribution. As soon as the bowl of amrita, the nectar of immortality was out, the asuras grabbed it.
Brahma was impressed by his austerity and granted him a wish. To this end, he meditated for Lord Brahma and because of his severe penance, the gods were frightened and asked Brahma to pacify the king. The king of demons (asuras), Hiranyakasyapa, wanted to become immortal and wanted to remain young forever. It then killed Hiranyaksha and retrieved the Vedas from the asura and brought it back to the safe custody of the Lord Brahma.In NARASIMHA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a semi-man, semi-lion in this world. He stole the Vedas, the holy scriptures from the Lord Brahma, while he was asleep and performed huge atrocities.To retrieve the Vedas and to save the world the Lord Vishnu assumed the role of a boar and brought out the earth from the under of the ocean, using its two tusks. He pushed the world to the Pataal loka, or the under of the sea.
Lord Vishnu then emerged as a half lion, half man from the pillar which was neither inside the house nor outside, and the time was evening, neither night nor day. Further enraged, Hiranyakasyapa knocked down a pillar, and asked if Lord was present there. Prahlad said, "He is everywhere". Enraged, once he asked Prahlad to show him the Lord Vishnu.
Indra and other gods fearing that he and asuras would conquer all the three worlds, went to Lord Vishnu for help. By his penance and might, he conquered the whole world. Bali, the grandson of Prahlada was a very valorous and mighty asura.
Lord Vishnu then grew in size and covered the earth and heaven in two stride. Bali was delighted to offer him anything he requested even though his priest warned him that it was Lord Vishnu.Vamana then requested for the amount of land that could come under his three feet. He went to Bali on growing up and asked for alms.
In the epic, the character RAMA is expected to show the world the characteristics of an ideal person, including ideal son, ideal husband, ideal king and an ideal person. On hearing this, the son of the king came back and killed Jamadagni.Parashurama was enraged at this and went and avenged the death of his father by killing all kshatriyas in 21 battles.In RAMA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as RAMA, the central character in the epic Ramayan. Kartavirya a powerful king, once went to Jamadagni's home when he was out, and after a meal, stole the Kamadhenu cow, which was supposed to give endless quantity of milk.Jamadagni was enraged and he went and killed the king and brought Kamadhenu back. Parashurama was always carrying an axe presented to him by Lord Shiva of whom he was an ardent devotee. He was born to Jamadagni and Renuka, and belonged to the Brighu clan. He was brought in this world to avenge all kshatriyas who had become arrogant and were suppressing the brahmans in the world.
The story of Ramayan, is an exciting nail-biting story of the war raged by Rama against various evil elements of the world and in the end against Ravana.Ramayan epitomises the ideal behaviour of man, with special focus on man-wife relationship, son-father relationship and the rules for ideal governance by a king.In KRISHNA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as KRISHNA , the central character in the epic MAHABHARATA. Hence RAMA was born and Lakshmi, wife of Lord Vishnu was born as Sita, his wife to be in this life. Ravana was too vainglorious to be thinking of being vanquished by a man.
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